Armigell Wade

or Waad, a Yorkshire Man born, spent some years in Logick and Philosophie, in St. Mary Magd. Coll. as it seems, took a Degree in Arts 1531, went afterwards to one of the Inns of Court, travelled into various Countries, and after his return became Clerk of the counsel to K. Hen. 8. and afterwards to K. Ed. 6. He is (f)(f) In his Epitaph, printed by Joh. Norden in his Historical and Chorographical descript. of Middlesex. Lond. 1593. in qu. p. 22. charactariz’d thus—Qui in maximarum artium disciplinis, prudentiaque civili instructissimus, plurimarum linguarum callentissimus, legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus, & inter Britunnos Indiarum Americ [•] rum explorator primus. He made many observations in his travels, especially in America, (being the first English Man that discovered it) which are remitted into the Volums of voyages collected and published by another hand. This Person, who was a Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex, died at Belsie or Belsise in the Parish of Hampsted in the said County, 20. June in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight, 1568 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Hampsted. Soon after was a fair Monument of Alabaster erected over his grave by Sir Will. Waad his eldest Son, Clerk of the Counsel to Qu. Elizabeth.